Copy Citation

[Pointyhead]

I'm trying to use Bookends in conjuction with other applications for the first time; I cannot enter a citation from Bookends into any word processor. Copying a citation (Cmd-Y) or drag-and-drop puts '\cite' in Mellel and creates a bibliography object with the same '\cite' text; it puts '\cite{}' in TextEdit.

Copy Formatted (Cmd-K) inserts a citation formated as for a bibliography (I presume this is correct operation), but does not create a bibliography object in Mellel (also correct?).

I can scan an RTF document, but in Mellel, I cannot verify manually entered citations: it replaces all the citations with blanks (just as it inserts blank citations as above). Opt + Double-Click in the bibliography pallette does switch to the proper citation in Bookends.

[danzac]

i'm not quite understanding everything that is wrong here, hopefully this helps.

1. In Mellel, when you manually enter a citation (in {} I assume) you need to convert those to citations in the Mellel Bib. palette. Have you done that?

2. In your Bookends preferences, under the "Scan and Bib" tab, do you have {} chosen as the citation delimiters? Also, set the copy citation to author, date, unique ID.

3. Have you chosen Bookends as your bibliography tool in the Mellel preferences?

I hope some of this helps. If not, please post again so we can help you figure out the problem

[Jon]

Hi,

There seems to be a number of misconceptions here.

The first, major, one is that you have enabled BibTeX in Bookends Preferences, and are inserting BibTeX-style temporary citations.

Disable that (unless you really want BibTeX temporary citations) and try again. If you still have questions, please post them.

Jon
Sonny Software

[Pointyhead]

Thanks, un-enabling BibTeX solved my problems.